screen recording

I tried to put together a screencast yesterday. Some success, some issues.

My seniors are beginning to write their research papers so I wanted to show them how to turn their notes into sentences. I thought that with a screencast, I could show then the steps from a copy/paste of text from a website to a few sentences with a citation. The whole demonstration took me about 10 minutes. I could do it in less time if I tried again, but felt like I hit all of the major points I wanted to remind them about.

Then I replayed it to see how it went. Bummer. I thought that while I was recording the screencast, it was also recording my voice. This was  not the case. I am not sure if Quicktime actually records audio during a screencast. I searched for a while, but could not find anything to get audio with it. I could do an audio only recording, but that isn't really as helpful.

Ultimately, I just did the demonstration live for my students and had the video of the screencast synced to their iPads for them to come back to when they need a refresher. Only one kid per class looked at it yesterday. I am curious if any go back to it today to check it out again.